Scar Treatment

A woman wrote into the "Ask Susie" column asking if there's a way to reduce the damage of acne scarring to your face. Mauro Romita, M.D from the Ajune medical spa here in New York gave a few answers and a little background on this particular type of scarring.

Apparently, acne scars (especially on the face) tend to only get worse with time. The reason is that as your skin gets slacker, the pits get deeper. It's kind of like when you take a wrinkled piece of paper and pull it taut. When it's taut, the wrinkles don't look so bad, but when you let it go, they look really, really bad.

The solutions that Mauro offers are a little on the expensive side, but if it's really damaging to your self-esteem, the money shouldn't matter. If you've got a fair complexion, laser treatments tend to be pretty successful. If you've got a darker skin tone, the most viable option is a face lift. This does seem a little extreme . . . but at least you'll cut back on wrinkles and the scarring at the same time, right?